Senior Counselor Carolun Bims chats with Lamadio Butler after class at the Youth Employment Partnership on July 28, 2014 in Oakland, CA. At $9 an hour Oakland's Youth Employment Partnership can employ 1,000 Oakland teens to learn skills in offices, pick up trash or other jobs. A dramatic spike to Oakland's minimum wage that voters will consider in November may have the unintended consequence of making it much harder to hire at-risk youth who are desperate for subsidized and grant-funded minimum wage jobs that organizations like the YEP provides. If the wage jumps to $12.25 the group could only employ 700 teens -- a 30 percent drop.